Rompecabezas · Los Concorde

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18-28 and 56-60, and 3 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ROMPECABEZAS · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 64 and 10 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 13 sections: 61 keep time, 16 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-28.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 2
VERSE
PART F
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCIDFS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rompecabezas?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Rompecabezas hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rompecabezas?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 64 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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